Manitoba nursing regulator warns patient safety at risk under labour mobility rules

Manitoba’s nursing regulator is raising the alarm over the “nursing incompetence” of some internationally educated nurses first licensed in other provinces, including highlighting two cases in which RNs trained abroad are alleged to have contributed to preventable deaths. The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) is going public with its concerns in hopes of convincing the provincial government to rescind a directive ordering it to abide by the Canadian Free Trade Agreement and other laws that are supposed to make it easy for nurses licensed in one province to get licensed in another.